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TIL of the Wall, a Marvel supervillian who is a sentient chunk of wall with no arms

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l4ja TIL that when Noam Chomsky was asked to demonstrate his point that sentences could be grammatical yet nonsensical, he came up with the sentence: “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”
LknMV TIL that in 1977, the FBI started to build a tunnel under the Soviet Embassy in Washington D.C to eavesdrop on the Soviets; the construction took years, was riddled with complications, and worse yet - the Soviets knew about the tunnel because of a tip-off
KO6BE TIL despite his immense wealth, John D. Rockefeller always took the train from his mansion to his downtown New York office every day. He was often harassed by beggars and other passengers, but refused to travel with bodyguards or use private transportation.
4na6 TIL, there is a prisoner who has spent 10,220 Days in Extreme Solitary Confinement
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